The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 54 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2004.183
Subjects

Other author/creatorSimmons, Barbara Lett, 1927-2012, interviewee.
Other author/creatorHamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons
Portion of title Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons
Abstract Government administrator Barbara Lett Simmons was born on June 4, 1927 in Battlecreek, Michigan. Graduating from Battlecreek High School in 1945, she earned her B.A. degree from Western Michigan University in sociology and education. Simmons taught in the public schools in Detroit, Michigan from 1949 to 1962, and Montgomery County, Maryland from 1962 to 1965. Simmons was Education Coordinator for the Washington D.C. Poverty Program from 1967 until 1968, when she joined the Department of Education, where she remained until 1972. After leaving the Department of Education, she formed a staff development and training consulting firm. Simmons served on the D.C. Board of Education from 1973 until 1986. She created a cable television and radio program entitled Educationally Speaking in 1977. As an act of civil disobedience, she refused to cast her Electoral College vote in 2000, in protest of D.C.'s "colonial status". Simmons passed away December 22, 2012, at age 85.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 September 28.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2004.183 HistoryMakers

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